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Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986. The band's lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker , Mark Bryan , Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld.
Cracked Rear View is Hootie & the Blowfish's most successful album. While initial sales were modest and it debuted at 127 on the Billboard 200, [17] it topped that chart five times in 1995 [18] and was the best-selling album of 1995 in the United States, selling 7 million copies, [19] besting the second-place Crazysexycool by 2.2 million. [20]
Darius Carlos Rucker (born May 13, 1966) [3] is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, and Dean Felber.
Hootie and the Blowfish were all the rage in the '90s with the release of their first studio album Cracked Rear View in 1994, which included hits like "Hold My Hand" and "I Only Want to Be With You."
Hootie & the Blowfish hit it big when the 1994 album “Cracked Rear View” went platinum 21 times. More than 10 million copies of “Cracked Rear View” have been sold and it remains one of the ...
Rucker, who has also launched a successful solo career as a country artist, has written a dishy new memoir.